Scott talks to Ken Bensinger of Buzzfeed News about the role of FBI informants in the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Bensinger explains that informants played a heavy role in the militia group involved and helped motivate members to take violent...
The Scott Horton Show
8/13/21 Adam Kokesh on Quitting the Military and Big Tech Suppression of Dissident Voices
by Scott Horton | Aug 17, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott is joined by Adam Kokesh, who gives his perspective on how much blame cops and soldiers bear for the immorality of their actions. Scott describes the way we seem to cut soldiers some slack, largely because they tend to be younger when they join up, the...
8/13/21 Daniel Davis on the Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Aug 15, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Daniel Davis about his recent Fox News article praising President Biden for standing firm (so far) in his intent to end the war in Afghanistan. Davis explains that although the Taliban takeover and the increase in violence in the wake of the American...
8/12/21 Ray McGovern on the History of US-Russia Relations and the Threat of a New Cold War
by Scott Horton | Aug 14, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Ray McGovern about his decades as a CIA analyst, with a particular focus on U.S.–Russia policy from Kennedy to George H. W. Bush. They also discuss America's growing antagonism toward Russia and China in recent years, and the attempt to expand NATO...
8/4/21 Muntadhar al-Zaidi on the Infamous George Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident
by Scott Horton | Aug 7, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show, Uncategorized
Scott talks to Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi man who famously threw his shoes at George W. Bush in 2008. At the time, Al-Zaidi hoped to bring awareness to the suffering inflicted on the Iraqi people by Bush's war. He has continued his activism in the years since,...
8/4/21 Ford Fischer on the Death of Johnny Hurley, the Concealed Carrier Who Stopped a Mass Shooting
by Scott Horton | Aug 7, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Independent journalist Ford Fischer tells the story of Johnny Hurley, a Colorado man who was killed by police after he stopped a mass shooting. Hurley came out of a store after seeing the shooter kill a police officer with a shotgun and then go back to his car to...
8/4/21 Daniel Larison: What Nord Stream 2 Means for NATO Expansion
by Scott Horton | Aug 7, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott and Daniel Larison discuss the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and what it means for America's stance toward Eastern Europe. The main issue with the German pipeline, Larison explains, is that it will allow Western Europe to buy Russian natural gas without having to deal...
7/30/21 Patrick Cockburn: The ‘Forever War’ in Afghanistan is Far From Over
by Scott Horton | Aug 1, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott and Patrick Cockburn speculate about the future of Afghanistan as the United States ends its military involvement there. Cockburn reminds us that although the Taliban are making gains in parts of the country, they are far from universally popular, and the...